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BuzzFoto Blind Item #687

The Wire — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:59:36 +0000

This B list actress who doesn’t have a lot of titles under her belt, but is still known for a few blockbusters. is currently sleeping with the director that she is said in the tabloids to despise.

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The Wire — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:18:26 +0000

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This award-winning director from an action genre recently held a contest among several groups of interns. The contest involved the interns writing a screenplay which would be submitted to a group of Hollywood insiders. The best script would be turned into a film that he, himself would direct. After getting an overwhelming response from the interns, the director decided he had ‘no interest in reading that many scripts’ and scrapped the whole project, leaving the interns disappointed and scratching their heads why they never got a response.

Quentin Tarantinos new film a spaghetti Western starring Christoph Waltz

The Wire — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:59:15 +0000

(HMG Celebrity News) – Genre jumping director Quentin Tarantino is moving ahead with his plans to make a Western, entitled ‘Django Unchained’. Indiewire reports that Tarantino finished the script late last week and handed in a final draft to Weinstein Company, re-teaming the director and film studio responsible for the 1994 smash hit, Pulp Fiction. [...]

Battleship Director Says Theres More To Rihanna Than Just Her Sexy Image

The Wire — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:08:29 +0000

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In the April issue of Vogue Magazine, director Peter Berg chatted with the magazine about Rihanna who stars in his upcoming Battleship movie and reveals the singer isn’

BuzzFoto Blind Item #493

The Wire — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:17:13 +0000

We heard that an Oscar winning film from LAST year has a leading actor that didn’t get the part too honestly. The actor, (who wasn’t nominated himself) allegedly got the part by sleeping with the director. Apparently that old couch-casting stuff still goes on! More surprising, the actor claims to be straight….

Directors Guild Awards: Tom Hooper Wins For 'The King's Speech' On His First Try

The Wire — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:55:52 +0000

LOS ANGELES, CA: The 63rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards were held tonight at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles. Only 6 times has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award for Best Director (1968/Carol Reed for Oliver!; 1972/Bob Fosse for Cabaret; 1985/Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa; 1995/Mel Gibson for Braveheart); 2000/Steven Soderbergh for Traffic; 2002/Roman Polanski for The Pianist) Here are the winners (in progress):
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2010:
TOM HOOPER, The King’

R.I.P. Peter Yates

The Wire — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:52:50 +0000

Deadline has learned that English film director and producer and 4-time Oscar nominee Peter Yates — who helmed such celebrated and dissimilar films as Bullitt, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, Suspect, and The Dresser – has passed away in London after a long illness. He was 82. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was a stage actor before working as an assistant director for Tony Richardson. Yates’ feature directorial debut was the early 1960s low-budget Summer Holiday (1963) with Cliff Richard And The Shadows. He soon graduated to the 1967 crime thriller Robbery, a fictionalized version of Britain’s The Great Train Robbery. It was a short jump to his first American film, Bullitt (1968), starring Steve McQueen in one of the definitive cop movies of all time thanks to that car chase through the streets of San Francisco. Other films he directed included John and Mary (1969), Murphy’s War (1971), The Hot Rock (1972), For Pete’s Sake (1974), The Deep (1977), Eyewitness (1981), The Dresser (1983), Krull (1983), Eleni (1985), Suspect (1987), The House on Carroll Street (1988), An Innocent Man (1989), Year of the Comet (1992), Roommates (1995), and Curtain Call (1999). He earned two Oscar nominations (director and producer) for Breaking Away, and another two (director and producer) for The Dresser.

Filmmakers "Pretty Close" On 'Cleopatra': Will Paul Greengrass Direct This Mega-Gig?

The Wire — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:53:08 +0000

Producer Scott Rudin reveals to Deadline that “we’re pretty close” to pinning down a director for his mega-high-profile Sony Pictures 3D movie Cleopatra starring Angelina Jolie and based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff’

OSCAR: Best Director Race May Surprise

The Wire — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:38:44 +0000

At the last Academy Awards, Barbra Streisand ripped open the envelope and revealed that Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman ever to win Best Director. No such groundbreaking moment is expected this year, but the category could offer up several surprises. With a wide open Oscar race, there’

CAA Signs 'Precious' Director Lee Daniels

The Wire — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:54:23 +0000

EXCLUSIVE: Daniels is coming off two Academy Award nominations for his last film, Precious, including Best Director and for Best Picture. He also won Best Director Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for what was his second film as director, the Helen Mirren-Cuba Gooding Jr-starrer Shadowboxer was his debut. This is a surprise move, as his WME reps have pretty much tied down his next film after months of work. Daniels is likely to helm The Butler for Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Denzel Washington attached to play the title role of Eugene Allen, an African American servant in the White House over 34 years who had a unique perspective on the civil rights struggle and was invited back after retirement to witness the inauguration of the first African American president, Barack Obama. Daniels has been rewriting a script by Recount’s Danny Strong. Laura Ziskin is producing.
Daniels is also attached to the independently-financed Selma (The Weinstein Company is prepared to come aboard as distributor), which is based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., with Plan B producing. WME also closed a deal to attach him to a remake of the 1957 pic Nights of Cabiria. Daniels, who started his career as casting director on Purple Rain before moving up to produce such films as Monster’s Ball and The Woodsman, has also been circling the Kander and Ebb musical … Read More